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PHILOSOPHER

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann

1743 - 1815

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Eberhardt August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (August 17, 1743, Uelzen – July 4, 1815, Braunschweig) was a German geographer and zoologist. He studied natural philosophy and mathematics in Leiden, Halle, Berlin, and Göttingen, and in 1766 was appointed professor of mathematics and natural sciences at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. One of his pupils was mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann has received more than 46,937 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann is the 827th most popular philosopher (down from 797th in 2019), the 2,700th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,491st in 2019) and the 105th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ranks 827 out of 1,081. Before him are Debendranath Tagore, Calcidius, André Glucksmann, Tan Sitong, Christian von Ehrenfels, and Ervin László. After him are Ferenc Dávid, Gregory of Tatev, Apollodorus the Epicurean, Alain Finkielkraut, Matthias Bel, and Paul de Man.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ranks 24. Before him are Joseph Banks, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, William Paley, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, and Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau. After him are Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Johannes Ewald, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, and Johann David Wyss. Among people deceased in 1815, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ranks 18. Before him are 9th Dalai Lama, Smithson Tennant, Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, James Gillray, and Torii Kiyonaga. After him are Matthias Claudius, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Carl Johan Adlercreutz, Francesco Bartolozzi, John Singleton Copley, and William Nicholson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ranks 2,700 out of 6,142. Before him are Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (1684), Stefan Heym (1913), Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (1269), George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1789), Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1832), and John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1634). After him are Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1614), Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1891), Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1646), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Joachim Streich (1951), and Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ranks 105. Before him are Friedrich Pollock (1894), Theodor Lessing (1872), Hans Albert (1921), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Karl Vogt (1817), and Joseph Dietzgen (1828). After him are Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773), Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), Erich Neumann (1905), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802).

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